panthenol

See also: panthénol

English

Noun

panthenol (countable and uncountable, plural panthenols)

1. (organic chemistry) The alcohol analogue of pantothenic acid, which is quickly oxidized to pantothenate in organisms.
   • 2009 February 22, S.S. Fair, “Curl, Interrupted”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

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